BLM to host wild horse and burro event in Windom

The Bureau of Land Management is holding a wild horse and burro placement event July 9-10, offering approximately 60 excess animals gathered from western rangelands at the Windom Arena, 1480 8th Avenue, Windom.

“Placement events like this one are important in promoting healthy horses on healthy rangelands out west,” said Acting Northeastern States District Manager Stephanie Carman. “Our goal is to find good homes for these animals.”

Adoptions and sales will be held by appointment only from 8 a.m-5 p.m. on Friday, July 9, and from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, July 10. On both days, placements will occur in one-hour increments (five appointments per hour). Appointments can be made via email at BLM_ES_NSDO_WHB@blm.gov. The BLM requests all potential buyers and adopters to disclose their top three preferred times slots when making appointments.

The BLM’s Adoption Incentive Program was designed to help improve rangeland health in overpopulated herd management areas in the western states and to save taxpayer costs for animals held at off-range holding facilities. Through this program, qualified adopters are eligible to receive $500 within 60 days of adoption and $500 upon title issuance for an untrained wild horse or burro. The incentive is available for all untrained animals eligible for adoption with an adoption fee of $25 per animal.

Animals that are over 10 years old or younger animals who were unsuccessfully adopted out to new homes three times may be sold. BLM staff will be available to identify these animals to interested, qualified buyers. Purchasers will receive immediate ownership of the animals.

To learn more about BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro program, visit https://www.blm.gov/whb.

Rural crawl seeks artists

After a year of laying low, the Hinterland Art Crawl is ready to go. Showcasing local artists in the general area of Redwood and Cottonwood counties, the art crawl is set for Saturday, Sept. 25.

Artists at any level are needed for the crawl, which showcases rural art that would otherwise go unnoticed.

The inaugural art crawl in 2019 brought local talent to wider attention. It also brought economic opportunities to southwest Minnesota. Several hundred people converged for the art experience, hobnobbing with artists and, as a pleasant side effect, supporting small businesses.

“Bringing rural southwest Minnesota individuals, businesses, and communities together with art is our mission,” said art crawl organizer David KelseyBassett. “We’re all in this together.”

He noted that the board has learned a lot from their first attempt at an art crawl.

“We’re fortunate to have gotten a grant from the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council to make this one even bigger and better,” KelseyBassett said.

Artists of any talent level in the area are asked to visit hinterlandartcrawl.com in order to register or find out more.

Man fatally shot outside Brooklyn Park grocery store

BROOKLYN PARK (AP) — Police in Brooklyn Park are investigating a fatal shooting outside a grocery store.

Witnesses told police a male suspect was sitting in his car and opened fire as the victim was about to walk into Nice Family African Market shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday.

The 22-year-old man who was shot got into a nearby vehicle driven by his girlfriend, according to police.

When officers caught up to the vehicle, the victim had numerous gunshot wounds and was unconscious. Medical aid was given to the man and he was transported to a hospital nearby.

The victim died a short time after arriving at the hospital, police said.

Investigators said a motive for the shooting is unclear. There’s no word whether police have made an arrest.

Woman fatally shot in Lakeville, man in custody

LAKEVILLE (AP) — A woman fatally shot in a Twin Cities suburb knew the man who has been arrested in the case, according to police.

The victim was found shot to death early Tuesday in the parking lot of the New Horizons Academy day care center in Lakeville.

A 32-year-old man who was known to the victim was tracked down later in the day in Belle Plaine, authorities said. According to police, he had a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Star Tribune reported.

He was treated at Hennepin County Medical Center and later moved to the Dakota County jail, where he is being held on suspicion of second-degree murder.

Police have not identified a motive.

Canadian man pleads guilty to illegal weapons charge

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Canadian man pleaded guilty Wednesday to transporting 67 illegal guns in a rented truck that was pulled over on Interstate 94 in northwestern Minnesota earlier this year.

Dayne Sitladeen, 29, was a passenger in a truck that was pulled over near Fergus Falls in January for driving close to 100 mph, authorities said. A state trooper searched the truck after he smelled marijuana and Sitladeen and the driver gave him fake IDs. That’s when a bag of guns was discovered.

Court documents state that Sitladeen was in the country illegally. At the time he was wanted on a 2019 Canadian arrest warrant for first-degree homicide, fentanyl distribution and possession of proceeds of crime, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota.

The driver, Muzamil Addow, had outstanding felony arrest warrants in Canada for firearms offenses and kidnapping, the Star Tribune reported.

Sitladeen pleaded guilty to an illegal weapons charge. Addow is scheduled for a plea hearing next month.

Brooklyn Center police make arrest in death investigation

BROOKLYN CENTER (AP) — Authorities say they are investigating the death of a woman in Brooklyn Center.

Officers were called to a welfare check about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday and discovered the woman’s body. Multiple children inside the residence were unharmed, police said.

A man has been arrested as part of the investigation, but no further details have been released. Police say there is no known ongoing threat or danger to the public.